solemnity
Example Sentences
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All this helps relieve the museum’s windowless solemnity.
From The Wall Street Journal • Oct. 29, 2025
It’s evidence of an unorthodox communication disposition developing within the party, away from the solemnity that has defined its reputation throughout the failure of the past decade.
From Slate • Jun. 11, 2025
"There was a calmness, a bit of solemnity," he continued, adding that everyone he spoke to when in it was "peaceful and just wanting to do this well".
From BBC • May 10, 2025
Despite its respectful restraint, “Eric LaRue” can be smothering in its solemnity, leaving Janice feeling one-note rather than a woman lost in her tangle of emotions.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 4, 2025
Stooped and half-blind, but still energetic, the old woman came and went between the kitchen and the dining room, bearing the enormous platters with the utmost solemnity.
From "The House of the Spirits: A Novel" by Isabel Allende
Vocabulary lists containing solemnity
"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act I
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Purple Hibiscus
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"Rules of the Game" (from The Joy Luck Club) by Amy Tan
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